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form size have been secured ; and now they have been incorpo¬ 
rated between the covers of a neat volume bearing the above 
caption, and supplied gratuitously to many members of the pro¬ 
fession of the State, forming a valuable addition to their libraries 
in original articles of research and experimentation. A majority 
of these are reprints from the Review and the “ Proceedings of 
the U. S. V. M. A.” The most prolific of the writers are Profs. 
Law, Williams, Fish, Moore and Gage, while other articles are 
by Drs. Hopkins, Kingsbury, Reed and Stanclift. An appen¬ 
dix gives the catalogue of the college. 
Merck’s Manual of the Materia Mf.dica for 1899, together with a Summary 01 
Therapeutic Indications and a Classification of Medicaments. New York : Merck & 
Co. 
The well-known drug house of Merck & Co. have sent forth 
their little manual for 1899, anc ^ f° r compactness, completeness, 
and reliability as a ready reference book covering the entire 
eligible materia mediea, it is unique and valuable to the physi¬ 
cian and veterinarian. It not only contains the essential data 
of the large dispensatories, but places at a glance before the 
practitioner in pocket form the newest facts in the field which 
it covers, bringing it right down to the date of its issue. Part 
I. affords at a glance a descriptive survey of materia inedica ; 
Part II. a summary of therapeutic indications ; and Part III. a 
classification of medicines according to physiologic actions. 
REVIEW OF BIOLOGY. 
Relation Between the P a orm of the Brain and the 
Size OF THE Dog —[By Dhere and Lapi r iqiie\. — If one exam¬ 
ines a series of brains of adult dogs, made according to the 
weight of the animals, a systematic change is observed in the 
forms of the organ ; those of the smaller dogs present, accord¬ 
ing to the direction they are looked at, a round form, spherical 
like ; in larger animals they appear, compared to the first, flat¬ 
tened in the vertical direction, elongated in their antero-posterior 
axis, the frontal region having a sudden transversal depression, 
making on the outlines of the norma verticalis a notch which 
does not exist in smaller groups. The authors have made a 
certain number of measurements which have shown them a sys¬ 
tematic variation of the form in function with the size of the 
dog and of that alone ; indeed, the character of breeds as indi¬ 
vidual variations, disappear by the use of averages. They have 
